Note: Does not follow the anime, but some parts are closely related. Also, the original story is by FairyFangirl7 and her story Stranded, I just loved the idea so much I couldn't resist putting my own twist on it.
I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does.
Lucy, six years later.
I leapt from brach to brach, my face was brown from the sun, which was setting on another wonderful day. My guild mark still bright as the day I got it, shone pink on my right hand, I smirked as I remembered that long ago day.
"Hey, Natsu! Look, I got the Fairy Tail guild mark!"
"Oh, yeah? Great, welcome to the guild, Loony."
"The names LUCY!"
I recalled how I had smashed him over the head that day, then the rest was lost in a deep swirling fog. I didn't remember anything of my past except that minute, the only person I remembered was that guy, Natsu. I couldn't remember him personally, just his guild mark, and his smile, and his silly pink hair. That was it. I quickly forgot that for the moment and began wondering where the heck Romeo had gotten too. He had taken to calling me Lucy-nee, which meant her was calling me his older sister. I giggle slightly, me? Older sister? Maybe, but don't tell me to be responsible! Oh, I remember now, Romeo was playing with Snaps. I thought of how Snaps has said he would look after him, yeah right. Snaps would lose his tail if it weren't attached to his rump. I landed to rest my arms, and I rubbed one of the 13 keys on a golden chain around me neck, one of the dolphins had given me the chain, Spout had found it on the ocean floor. I didn't know what they were for, or why 10 were gold and only 3 were silver, but just holding them gave me a sense of strength, my favorite one was the one they had a lion shaped top, there was also one that looked like a crab, and I couldn't explain it, but I felt a sense of warmth and love whenever I felt any of them. I sighed, I was eleven when I had joined that guild, I guess it was called Fairy Tail. I was barely a member for a year before we had been wrecked. Now, I barely remembered the life I had lead six years ago. I was fawning over how much food I had found when I heard a rustle of leaves about me. Maybe Giddy was back and wanted to help me with my load, or help me eat it, anyway.
That, was, of course, when a banana peel landed on my head, and I heard screeching laughter as the little monkey who had dropped it bolted away across the branches
"Oh, Leaf is gonna die this time." I thought as I climbed upward, silently wondering if grilled monkey tasted any good.
I chased that annoying little pest across the treetops in fury.
"Your dead meat this time, Leaf! I'm gone make you into a furry little shish kabob!" I shouted as I swung effortlessly through the branches, my keys bouncing on my neck. "Catch me if you can!" I heard the monkey shout out as he bounced away. I gave up, I was fast, but I couldn't catch a monkey in the trees. So I turned around and headed back towards the fort, on the way I spotted Blossom heading the opposite way.
"Hey, Blossom!" I cried as I dropped down in front of her.
"Well, hello, Lucy, how are you?" She asked.
"I'm doing good, but I gotta run and chop up some dinner for Romeo and I, speaking of Romeo, he's supposed to be with Snaps, could you send him home when you see him?"
I asked. "Sure, no problem, see you later, Lucy." She said.
"Ok, thanks, bye!" I jumped back up into the trees and continued homeward after that.
Romeo
"Jeranimo!" I shouted as I hurled myself off the branch, I reached out and snagged a vine that I had set up for myself.
I swung downward, gaining speed as I went.
"Wait'a go, swing like a Tarzan!" I heard Sky shout.
She had heard a story about a Tarzan when she had flown to the mainland, though I didn't really know anymore then the main character liked to swing on vines too. I released the vine and grabbed another branch, then, of course, my grip slipped and landed in a mud puddle.
"Romeo! Are you ok?" I rubbed my head and saw three Snaps looking down on me. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, and looked up at Snaps again.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just banged my head a bit." I moaned.
Then Blossom came down the path, and looked from her husband to me, lying in a mud puddle.
"Lucy is going to kill you for getting Romeo muddy, Snaps."
She said calmly.
"It's not my fault he slipped and fell!" Snaps cried.
"Anyway, Romeo, I ran into Lucy on my way home, she wanted me to send you back, so scoot. You can come back tomorrow." Blossom said.
"But I haven't finished the course yet Blossom! I don't wanna leave just yet!" I shouted in protest.
"Did I mention she's making dinner?" Blossom asked.
I felt my tummy grumble.
"Bye, Snaps! We'll try again tomorrow!" I cried as leapt up and disappeared into the trees, swinging away toward home.
Sky swooped next to me, she was a small tropical parrot her feathers were white and gold.
"So, what's for dinner?" Sky asked.
"You are not getting any, but I think Lucy-nee said something about walking to the mango groves." I replied.
"Aww, c'mon! I want a mango."
"If you help me build a new vine course, and convince Lucy-nee to try it, you can have one." I said.
"Deal!" The parrot cried excitedly.
"Ok, here you go, enjoy!" I pulled the mango I had been saving for a snack out of my bag and tossed it to him, he sunk his tiny foot talons into it and struggled under the weight of a fruit as big as he was. "Yummy!" She shouted excitedly.
"See you tomorrow, Sky!" I cried.
Then I left the bird to her meal. I swung by the tallest tree on the island, and I couldn't resist, I climbed to the top and sat for a moment, wiping the mud from my shorts, Lucy-nee had reused the cloth from my old shorts, along with some of the cloth we had found in the burlap sacks, into a pair of longer shorts, that reached down to my knees.
I looked out at the oceans rippling waves.
"I love it here." I whispered.
Then I saw it, a ship was sailing across the horizon, passing by our island. We had seen a few other ships over the past six years, this one was about as close as the other one's had been, maybe a bit closer. I thought about it, if I had built a fire on the beach, I probably could have caught that ships attention, then it would take me back to where ever I had lived before I got here. I shook my head, that's why I wasn't going to build a fire. Then I looked to side and saw the dark clouds rapidly filling the sky, and lighting bolts reaching down toward our island. I gasped in fear.
"Lighting Storm!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.
"Lighting Storm! Lucy-nee! Lucy-nee!" I shouted as I bounded through the treetops, that ship was toast, but I could care less. I needed to warn Lucy-nee so we could get our home ready.
"Lucy-nee! Lucy-nee!" I shouted.
"What's wrong?" I saw her climbing from the hatch on the deck on the top of our home.
"Lighting Storm! Big one, we got an hour, maybe less."
She nodded quickly.
"You secure the tarps, I'll get the crows nests inside." She said.
"Right!" I cried in response. Then I dove into the hatch and pulled out the tarps we used to cover the spots where our tree fort was open to the outside. I tied the tarps down and made sure I had covered everything when it began to rain. I saw Lucy-nee struggling to pull the last of the three barrel crows nest's down from the branches. I ran to help her, and together we dragged all three inside, we were just about to get in ourselves when I remembered.
"Oh, no! Sky!" I cried.
"What about her?" Lucy-nee asked.
"I gave Sky a mango, she was trying to drag it back to her nest when I left her, she could still be out there." I shouted, before leaping from the top of the fort, reaching out, and swinging from a branch, climbing down the tree, and running through the paths toward Sky's nest, shouting her name.
"Romeo, wait up!" Lucy-nee was following me.
We ran toward the nest until we saw Sky, eating her mango in a tree, "Hey guys, what's wrong?" Sky asked as she swallowed another beak full of her precious fruit. Clearly she hadn't yet noticed it was raining and getting harder by the minute.
"You need to ditch the mango and go back to your nest in the cliff, a Lighting Storm is coming, it'll hit any minute now!
"A Storm!" Sky cried, "I gotta get home! Thanks for the warning, guys, now get home before you get washed away!"
The she flew at top speed toward her nest, and we ran at top speed for our house, still shouting, "Lighting Storm!"
To make sure any birds that were still out would get to a safe place fast. Then the rain got harder, and harder, so hard I could barely see the path in front of me.
"It's coming down!" Lucy shouted as we scrambled up the tree and dove through the hatch, we slammed it shut and tied a thick rope to it to hold it down. The rope had been in one of the bags that had washed to shore with us. Soon the rain was pounding at the deck and thunder was crashing above us. Making it sound as though the very sky was crumbling and falling to the earth.
"So, want something to eat?" Lucy asked me after a while, walking over to the long counter we had built off to the side of the ship and pulling some bananas and papayas from one of her burlap sacks she had remade into a backpack. I removed and wrung out my vest before plopping down into my chair, built from leftover wood.
"Yeah, anything other than Sky's poor mango." I replied.
Natsu
The storm hit so fast we didn't have time to prepare. Everyone was running for the door to the lower deck. I was up in the crows nest, trying to climb down without being torn from the mast, the wind was powerful, and I was soaked to the bone in seconds. My scarf flapping around like a battle flag as I tied it tighter to make sure I wouldn't lose it, my most prized possession, to the gigantic storm.
"Help!" I shouted over the crashing waves and the booming thunder. Lighting lanced from the sky, like fingers reaching out and trying to drag me to an early grave. I climbed down toward the main deck as quickly as I could, but then the ropes themselves were torn from there riggings and I was sent flying into the black waters below. I burst to the surface to see the ship being dragged farther out to sea from the small island we had spotted not long ago. Barrels and bags and ropes and netting spilled from the upper deck and onto me. The water splashed over my head, sending me to coughing as I tried to grab the anchor chain. Another barrel rolled over the edge and nearly landed on me, I clung to it, hoping against hope to somehow survive this. A rope net dropped on top of me, dragging me down, then the heavy, ball shaped end of one of the rigging ropes swung down and smashed me in the back of the head, with the last of my strength, I dragged myself into the barrel, then I blacked out.
Lucy
The storm's are called Lighting Storms for three reasons, one, they came fast and without much warning. Two, they pulled huge bolts of lighting from the sky, and three, they disappeared as quickly as the had come. With Romeo huddled up against me in our bed, trying to block out the pounding thunder, we had both somehow fallen asleep. When we woke up the sky was a gorgeous blue and the sun was shining as bright as could be.
"Amazing! It hasn't been this sunny in weeks!" Romeo cried as opened the porthole and stared out of the window.
On our island, we have two seasons, the summer season and the storm season, during the summer, we have light rainstorms, little thunder and lighting, and mostly sunny sky's. The storm season is when the Lighting Storms hit, huge, violent storms that soak the island. Then they turn into cloudy days, rarely sunny as this one.
Romeo turned to me,
"Lucy-nee, why don't we go for a walk down the beach? We haven't gone on one since summer, and all of our wind chimes were ripped down by the storm. We could make new one's if we find some pretty shells."
He suggested, I smiled.
"Why not?" I asked. "Let's hang the tarps to dry and put back up the crows nests, then I'll get my shell bag and we can go."
"All right!" Romeo cried, before climbing quickly up the rope ladder that lead to the second nook. Then he swung hand over hand up the single rope that lead to the hatch. He pulled himself outside and a moment later I could here the rustling of fabric as he untied the tarps and draped them over branches to dry in the gentle after storm breeze. After he did that I passed the barrels up to him we maneuvered them back into place.
"Now can we go? C'mon, please!" Romeo begged.
"Alright, calm down, let's go." I said as I slung my bag over my shoulder and climbed down with him, then we began to swing though the tree's toward the beach.